In The Fullerton Hotel Sydney’s Grand Ballroom – at 1,058m2, the largest pillarless hotel ballroom in the city – 205m2 of LED is set to be installed, across all four walls, including a 33m-by-4m ultra-wide screen on a mounted track. Like the room itself, which divides into four, the screen will be able to split into sections.
“The flexibility of this installation changes what a single event day can look like,” said AVPartners’ managing partner, Andrew Hackett.
“We can run a plenary session in the Grand Ballroom in the morning, split the room into separate meeting spaces over morning tea, reset for lunch, hold breakouts through the afternoon and reconfigure for a gala dinner that night, all in the same room.
“Three or four event formats in one space, with no rigging schedule and setting up and packing down.”
Adds AVPartners’ area partner for New South Wales, Teresa Amey: “I was part of the team that opened this property in 2000. Twenty-five years on, the Grand Ballroom remains one of Sydney’s most significant event spaces and is now redefined with the technology to match. This is the most sophisticated permanent AV installation of any hotel ballroom in Australia.”
The hotel’s eight other meeting spaces – ranging from the 400m2 Heritage Ballroom with its 11m domed ceiling to the smallest 25m2 meeting room – are all getting an LED makeover too, either permanent or modular, with the property to remove projectors and portable screens entirely.
Alongside the LED influx, AVPartners is also adding AI production cameras, kinetic lighting tubes, touchscreen room controls and 4K vision processing to The Fullerton’s AV inventory, alongside installing a new PA system in the Grand Ballroom as well as lighting and audio in pre-function spaces.
The Fullerton Hotel Sydney’s general manager, John O’Shea, said the collaboration with AVPartners, which officially begins September 1, “marks an exciting chapter” for the hotel.
“Their reputation for technical excellence, bespoke service and innovative event solutions aligns perfectly with our commitment to delivering world-class experiences,” said O’Shea.
“With our Grand Ballroom and versatile meeting spaces, we look forward to leveraging their expertise to elevate our clients’ events and bring their visions to life with seamless, cutting-edge technology.”
